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Castelnuovo-Tedesco & Villa-Lobos Guitar Concertos

Many artists have rightly said that you shouldn't play a work unless you love it, a sermon that seems not...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1986

Haydn String Quartets Op.17

Small works perhaps, not in the same league as the masterpieces of the genre to come, but far from small...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 9/2010

Beethoven: Early String Quartets

In reviewing this set on its first appearance I registered admiration rather than unqualified pleasure. This superb ensemble has all...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1986

Brahms/Schumann Symphonies

The first of Karajan's three Berlin Brahms cycles (1963) was, by general consent, his finest for DG. As to which...

Reviewed in issue 7/1995

Chopin Resonances

This is Chopin presented with a difference. For here Kevin Kenner follows a reeling path, moving effortlessly from Chopin through...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2011

Wolf Lieder

Felicity Lott's most recent Wigmore Hall recital showed her to be ever more relaxed and ever more sharply focused as...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 10/1989

Ludwig Weber - Opera Arias

In the 20 years from 1936 to 1956, Ludwig Weber was a commanding figure in the field of German opera....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1999

Bach Harpsichord Concertos

When these recordings were first issued, over a quarter of a century ago, Roger Fiske, Malcolm MacDonald and I all...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1995

Andrea Bocelli - Verdi

The lirico-spinto repertoire of the tenor in Verdi is well represented here, the lirico part by arias from La traviata...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2000

Prokofiev. Cello Music

Prokofiev and Shostakovich reacted to the anti-formalist purges of 1948 in opposite ways. For Shostakovich it was a question of...

Reviewed in issue 10/1988

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